Lake Berkley Resort Rental Homes - An Orlando Vacation Guide

The impressive Lake Berkley Resort in Kissimmee is an impressive luxury gated and guarded Florida vacation rental community. It's attractively set in rich, landscaped grounds which start at the impressive resort entrance and extend through the well maintained palm fringed boulevards. Lake Berkley has been constructed around three large lakes and offers luxury resort style with onsite communal facilities. Located just a few miles from Walt Disney World®, Lake Berkley Resort vacation rental homes offer an unbeatable combination of luxury and convenience.

Staying at Lake Berkley Resort

Lake Berkley is a Luxury Community with resort style amenities for which both vacation rental guests and homeowners enjoy complimentary access. The resort also houses a Hapimag resort within it, which may be worth checking out.

From the moment you arrive, you'll notice the attention and detail that's gone into the lush tropical landscaping and the overall design of resort and you won't fail to be fascinated by the diverse flora and fauna on a walk around Lake Berkley.

The homes in the resort have been designed so as to surround the fully featured resort clubhouse. This offers many amenities for guests to enjoy including a large heated resort style pool with a Jacuzzi. The clubhouse reception area provides information for guests staying at the resort. For the children, there's a fully equipped games room with arcade games and games consoles. While for the adults who are determined to keep in shape while on vacation, there's a well equipped exercise room. Outside, there are tennis and basketball courts and the pool area is perfect for soaking up the Florida sun or relaxing in the spa. It also has ample sun loungers on the large deck area, so it makes the perfect spot for enjoying a family vacation.

Lake Berkley Vacation Rental Homes

The upscale vacation rental accommodation of the resort includes villas and homes, most of which have private pools and range from 3 to 8 bedrooms and from 1,700 to 3,500 sq. ft in size. So, whether you're looking for a single villa for your family or two or more vacation rental homes in Lake Berkley, to accommodate a larger group, your needs will be accommodated by the Resort.

Each Lake Berkley Resort vacation rental home is privately owned and locally managed, so all you need to do is relax and enjoy your vacation. The other big advantage of renting a villa here is that you could visit the parks in the morning, come back to the resort for lunch and a dip in the pool and be back in Disney World® for dinner and the evening firework display.

Getting to the Attractions from Lake Berkley Resort

It's probably fair to say that nowhere else on Earth are so many internationally renowned tourist attractions congregated within a single area, and certainly nowhere else in the United States. Florida is the top vacation destination for domestic and international travellers alike. The Sunshine State offers a great variety of attractions and activities for visitors of all ages, and while in the past, Florida was largely known for its beaches and natural resources, today it's arguably its man-made attractions that bring visitors to Florida in their tens of millions. In terms of the man-made attractions, these predominantly reside in a band running across the middle of the state from Orlando and south down towards Tampa. The beauty of staying in a vacation rental home in Lake Berkley Resort is that all of these attractions are all accessible on a day trip from the community. But vacations aren't just about the man-made attractions; you can enjoy the natural resources of Florida too. If you want to take the kids surfing at Cocoa Beach on the Atlantic coast, or just feel like chilling at Clearwater Beach on the Gulf of Mexico, then either of these is doable on a day trip. Both of these beaches are no more than a 90 minute drive away.

The following driving times are approximate, but they give an indication of the convenience of staying in vacation rental home at Lake Berkley Resort:

Lake Berkley Resort and Golf

Orlando offers visitors an exclusive golfing experience not to be found anywhere else. It has long catered to the world's most discerning golfers - tourists and pros alike. The extremely pleasant weather makes it a natural hot spot for golfers. Many of the very best golf course architects have done some of their finest work right here. There are courses to suit every golfer's ability from beginners to scratch golfers. The best time for golfing weather is between October through May when it gets cooler (temps in the 70s/80s) and course conditions are at their peak, but you get the best price breaks between the hotter and stickier months of July through September. We've listed some golf courses near Lake Berkley Resort with approximate driving times:

Restaurants in the Lake Berkley Resort Area

When you head out of Lake Berkley Resort and drive around the local area, you'll soon pass a fair number of restaurants and fast food outlets, but the real concentration of restaurants and take outs can be found on US192 and best of all the US192 is very close to lake Berkley. Within a couple of mile stretch of the US192 you'll come across dozen's of restaurants. It However, the vast majority of these eateries are chain restaurants, but if you go off the beaten track, you will find the occasional independently owned restaurant, but you will have to keep an eye out for them. We've compiled the list below by literally driving around the area, so while it's not exhaustive, it will give an impression of the restaurants and fast food outlets that are available: Applebee's, Bahama Breeze, Black Angus Steak Restaurant, Bob Evans, Bonefish Grill, Boston Lobster Feast, Buffalo Wild Wings, Charley's Steak House, Chili's, Chuy's Tex-Mex, Columbia, Cracker Barrel, Denny's, Diromio's Pizza And Grill, Five Guys, Logan's Roadhouse, Longhorn Steakhouse, Macaroni Grill, Manny's Original Chophouse, Miller's Ale House, Moor, Olive Garden, On The Border, Outback Steakhouse, Panera Bread, Perkins, Pollo Tropical, Ponderosa, Red Lobster, Retro Station, Rosies Smokin Hot BBQ, Sakura Asian Fusion, Savion's Place, Sizzler, Shoneys, Sweet Tomatoes, Tarantino's Italian, Texas Roadhouse, TGI Fridays, Waffle House and finally Zaxby's. But this list is by no means exhaustive.

Eating at HomeIf you're thinking of cooking at the house, then you'll need to want to a supermarket for food shopping. Staying in Lake Berkley Resort makes that easy; there are three large supermarkets (Walmart, Publix and Target) within a five minute drive of the community. So, you'll never be too far away when you need to pick up a few beers and the steak and shrimp for the poolside Barbeque.

Mall and Outlet Shopping If you're looking for more upscale shopping, then you'll have to drive into Orlando. With its upscale malls, shopping outlets and boutiques, Orlando offers great options. Designer brands and the hottest fashion trends are always in style at The Mall Millennia and The Florida Mall where shoppers will find top department stores offering incomparable service. Orlando's designer outlets, including Orlando Premium Outlets on International Drive, Orlando Premium Outlets on Vineland Avenue, and the Lake Buena Vista Outlets, feature a wide selection from the world's top designers at incredible savings. With this many shopping opportunities within 30 minutes driving distance, you had better bring a spare credit card.

The Lake Berkley Resort Weather

With any location in Florida being no more than seventy five miles from the ocean, the whole state's climate is heavily influenced by its proximity to the ocean. On top of that, the state is climatically split into. The division occurs at Lake Okeechobee, in the middle of Florida. Anywhere to the North of the lake, which is where Lake Berkley Resort, Kissimmee is located, the climate is defined as humid subtropical, while areas to the south have a true tropical climate.

So, when staying in Lake Berkley Resort, you should expect weather ranging from warm and pleasant during the non-summer months, through to extremely hot during the period of June thru to September. Florida is called the Sunshine state for good reason, the sun shines on most days and the temperature rarely ventures anywhere near 32°F. This explains why over the years, Disney and Universal Studios have both made Florida, and in particular Orlando, their home.

If you visit Orlando's theme parks and attractions outside of the summer months, you should have a relatively dry and comfortable experience. But in summer months, it's going to be very hot and very humid most days, with temperatures in June, July and August reaching into the mid 90s F.

Alternative Communities to Look At

We'd suggest that if you find a vacation rental home on Lake Berkley Resort that ticks all the right boxes, then send off an inquiry about it's exact rental price and availability, but also do continue to look for other homes, both on Lake Berkley Resort and on other communities. So, we'll list a few examples starting with a couple of Davenport and Clermont communities which are further away from most of the attractions, but which are often priced more competitevely than vacation rental homes in the Kissimmee area. In the Davenport/Clermont area, you might want to consider Champions Gate which is a very good community for golfers and Calabay Parc at Tower Lake and also Tuscan Hills which is another great spot, if you're a golfer. If you're on a tighter budget, then take a look at Crescent Lakes . And then in the Kissimmee area, you might look at vacation rentals in Emerald Island which is close to Disney and Terra Verde , which again is close to the parks.

The quality of all of the vacation rental communities around Disney area is excellent and the generally the homes on these communities are of a very high quality. So, we'd suggest that as a first step in your hunt for a vacation home, you try and establish your needs including the planned dates of travel and the number of you traveling before contacting as many homeowners as possible. This will allow you to identify which vacation rental homes most closely suit your requirements. Whether it be availability dates, price, location, size of the property, facilities of the resort or community, etc, all of these should feature in your decision making process.

Driving Directions to Lake Berkley Resort

Because Orlando is the recognized vacation capital of the world, it's become the sweetheart of the travel industry. So, for you and me that translates into the fact that it's now pretty straightforward to get a flight in and out of Orlando with a substantial number of international and domestic flights arrive at the city's airports each day. Orlando is served by two international airports; Orlando International Airport (MCO) and the slower paced, more relaxed, Orlando-Sanford Airport (SFB) which are 30 minutes and one hour's driving time, respectively from Lake Berkley Resort.

Most major airlines fly into Orlando International Airport and a lesser number use the former naval air station of Sandford. There are a number of driving routes from Orlando International Airport to Lake Berkley Resort, but we generally advise on this one because of its simplicity. To reach Lake Berkley Resort from Orlando International Airport, take FL-417S towards West Osceola Pkwy in Osceola County. Then take exit 3 on FL-417S onto West Osceola Parkway and North Poinciana Boulevard. After 3 miles turn left onto Oren Brown Road and after half a mile turn right onto N Roma Way and Lake Berkley Resort will be ahead on the right.

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